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Chan-Seung Lee
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 Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 6:55 pm Post subject: put sb on the spot |
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| You put me on the spot. |
Someone said that the quote means that 'you makes me embarrased.'
But according to my English dictionary, the quote means that 'you asked too difficult questions of me to answer.'
Could you clean it?
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Bob S.
Joined: 29 Apr 2004
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Location: So. Cal
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| Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 10:34 am Post subject: Re: put sb on the spot |
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| Chan-Seung Lee wrote: |
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| You put me on the spot. |
Someone said that the quote means that 'you makes me embarrased.'
But according to my English dictionary, the quote means that 'you asked too difficult questions of me to answer.'
Could you clean it? |
Same thing. You asked a question that is too difficult for me to answer or you asked me to do something that is difficult or terribly inconvenient to do, so you embarrassed me.
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